Thirty Veteran Guitarists — Including Slash, Steve Vai and John Petrucci — Choose the Song They'd Most Want to Be Remembered By, Part 2

Veteran guitarists choose the one song they'd most want to be remembered by — Part 2.

Slash (Guns N' Roses),
"Paradise City"Appetite for Destruction (1987)

"This is the song that's most indicative of what I'm really into as a musician. One of the things I enjoy about being a guitar player is striving to reach some kind of a goal, even when I'm not sure what that is.

And 'Paradise City' was the closest I got to doing what I would consider great, loud, fuckin' riff rock that clocks in at just three minutes. That's where I was headed, and that was the closest I got to realizing my goal in terms of expressing myself on the guitar in GN'R."